Starving to Death in a Sea of Objects
Author : John A. Sours
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 19,47 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Anorexia nervosa
ISBN :
A Hunger So Wide and So Deep
Author : Becky W. Thompson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 39,37 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Abused women
ISBN : 9781452902777
Book Description
The first of its kind, A Hunger So Wide and So Deep challenges the popular notion that eating problems occur only among white, well-to-do, heterosexual women. Becky W. Thompson shows us how race, class, sexuality, and nationality can shape women's eating problems. Based on in-depth life history interviews with African-American, Latina, and lesbian women, her book chronicles the effects of racism, poverty, sexism, acculturation, and sexual abuse on women's bodies and eating patterns. A Hunger So Wide and So Deep dispels popular stereotypes of anorexia and bulimia as symptoms of vanity and underscores the risks of mislabeling what is often a way of coping with society's own disorders. By featuring the creative ways in which women have changed their unwanted eating patterns and regained trust in their bodies and appetites, Thompson offers a message of hope and empowerment that applies across race, class, and sexual preference.
The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
Author : Monica Lanyado
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 22,40 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 113469184X
Book Description
This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the practice and principles of child and adolescent psychotherapy around the world. Contents include: * a brief introduction to the child psychotherapy profession, its history and development * a review of the theory underlying therapeutic practice * an overview of the varied settings in which child psychotherapists work * analysis of the growth of the profession internationally * an examination of areas of expertise around the world * a summary of current research Contributors are experienced practitioners from within a diverse range of schools and approaches and so provide a well-rounded picture of child and adolescent psychotherapy today. The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy will be an essential resource for professional psychotherapists, students of psychotherapy, social workers and all professionals working with disturbed children.
Dying to Please
Author : Avis Rumney
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 29,7 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780899500836
Book Description
The author discusses her own case of anorexia nervosa, describes the symptoms and psychological causes of the disease, and looks at various treatment techniques
Voices of Mental Health
Author : Martin Halliwell
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0813576806
Book Description
This dynamic and richly layered account of mental health in the late twentieth century interweaves three important stories: the rising political prominence of mental health in the United States since 1970; the shifting medical diagnostics of mental health at a time when health activists, advocacy groups, and public figures were all speaking out about the needs and rights of patients; and the concept of voice in literature, film, memoir, journalism, and medical case study that connects the health experiences of individuals to shared stories. Together, these three dimensions bring into conversation a diverse cast of late-century writers, filmmakers, actors, physicians, politicians, policy-makers, and social critics. In doing so, Martin Halliwell’s Voices of Mental Health breaks new ground in deepening our understanding of the place, politics, and trajectory of mental health from the moon landing to the millennium.
So Much Wasted
Author : Patrick Anderson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 31,76 MB
Release : 2010-10-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 0822348284
Book Description
An analysis of self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison.
Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy
Author : R. Howard Bloch
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 14,11 MB
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520368371
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
Hunger Strike
Author : Susie Orbach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 26,95 MB
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0429914660
Book Description
Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist arid writer. With Luise Eichenbaum she co-founded The Women's Therapy Centre in London in 1976 and in 1981 The Women's Therapy Centre Institute in New York. She lectures extensively in Europe and North America, is a visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, and has a practice seeing individuals and couples and consulting to organizations. She is a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines, as well as to radio and television programmes. Her other books on eating problems are Fat is a Feminist Issue (1978), Fat is a Feminist Issue II (1982) and On Eating (2002). With Luise Eichenbaum she has written Understanding Women: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Account (1982), What do Women Want (1983) and Between Women (1988). She is also the author of What's Really Going on Here (1993), Towards Emotional Literacy (1999) and The Impossibility of Sex (1999).
Truants from Life
Author : Ved Varma
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 100098916X
Book Description
First published in 1991, Truants from Life is written by three child psychiatrists, three psychologists, two psychotherapists, a social worker, a bereavement counsellor and two specialist teachers. The result is an excellent, fascinating, authoritative and wide-ranging examination of withdrawn children at home, in school and society. It outlines – how well do we understand difficulties of such children? How can they be helped to have a more robust, adequate and mature life? This is why there are chapters on causes, assessments and treatments of withdrawal from life. Reliable and rich case histories illustrate themes where appropriate. This book will be of interest to students of psychology, mental health, and social work.
The Sociology of Health and Illness
Author : Peter Conrad
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 11,60 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780716709985
Book Description
This collection of 49 readings offers an integrated analysis of the most important issues regarding health and health care from a critical and sociological perspective. Substantive introductions provide context for the readings. With ten new and two revised essays, the Seventh Edition contains more coverage of key areas such as alternative medicine, the pharmaceutical industry, and the relationship between healthcare and politics.
